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After The Rising: A Sweeping Saga of Love, Loss and Redemption - The Centenary Edition (Irish Trilogy)
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About After The Rising: A Sweeping Saga Of Love, Loss And
Product Description "One is immersed in this epic story immediately and effortlessly… The main characters are so well-drawn that you feel you have heard about them in your own life." - The Evening Herald A death in the present—a killing in the past. After twenty years away, Jo Devereux flies home to Ireland for her mother’s funeral — the mother she hasn’t spoken to for more than two decades. Every minute there reminds her of all the reasons she left and she has no desire to reacquaint herself with her home village. Or with Rory O’Donovan, her lost love. Then, she reads her mother’s will. Her inheritance is a chest full of letters and journals, written by her grandmother and great-aunt, that answer a long held secret. Who murdered her great-uncle in the Irish Civil War.. and why? How did what an uprising for Irish freedom and independence degenerate into a bitter civil war where neighbor turned against neighbor, and family against family– leaving a legacy of lies, secrets, and silences for generations to come? As Jo unearths the bitter, buried history she shares with Rory she finally understands why their love was doomed from the start. But what about now? Can she stay true to both her heart and her heritage? She knows from her own life how the wild energy of rebellion can carry someone away… but what happens after the rising? Review SUNDAY INDEPENDENT: "One is immersed in this epic story immediately andeffortlessly... The main characters are so well-drawn that you feel youhave heard about them in your own life. The novel's strength is that itputs culpable, fragile flesh and blood - lots of blood - on a definingmoment in Irish history... Of particular delight are the many unexpected twists and turns. When you think you've figured out the secrets, youmay have got it all wrong. Orna Ross has written a highly ambitious,engaging and evocative novel and a hauntingly captivating read." IRISH INDEPENDENT: "This debut novel from Orna Ross [is] the sort ofmassive book you could happily curl up with for the entire winter, animpressive canvas interweaving a contemporary story of love, emigrationand loss with the complex world of civil war politics, emerging women'srights and buried secrets. It explores the influence of our families onwho we later become, in literary, lyrical language, while still being acaptivating read." EVENING HERALD: "The writer is tackling a central theme - and one that's been sleeping quietly since the Irish State's foundation: the idealsand ideas of that time and how they affect the very different Ireland of today. The story-within-a-story - desire, hatred, love and a killing in the Civil War - is loosely based on a Wexford murder of the time and... is a gripping story. Interweaving past and present and making themstrike fire off each other... [the writer] has made brilliant use oforiginal sources, including local historians in Wexford, adding theicing on the cake." MORE REVIEWS: SUNDAY TRIBUNE: "Epic sweep...ambitious scope... an intelligent book". EMIGRANT ONLINE: "A riveting story...vividly brought to life." BIBLIOFEMME: "An incredible literary debut that will have the reader absolutely enthralled." THEBOOKBAG.CO.UK: "I couldn't put it down." AMAZON.COM: "Orna Ross has written a masterpiece and in this age of exaggerationand hyperbole I hope I can convey just how exceptional is her book." From the Author Isabel Allende once said, "Write what should not be forgotten". That's my guiding principle as a writer. My father's uncle was shot during the Irish civil war of 1922/3, thoughnobody was able to say by whom, or why. And I grew up, fifty yearslater, in the village where this had happened, surrounded by silenceabout this event. So when I came to write fiction, it was natural toturn to that time, and its consequences. It seemed to sum up so much ofwhat I wanted to say about what gets spoken and what remains secret andunsaid. And also about the struggle every human being experiences
